The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.


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The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in th...
JACQUES ELLUL
Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation God is always present, always available. At...
JACQUES ELLUL
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
JACQUES CHIRAC
The finest amusements are the most pointless ones.
JACQUES CHARDONNE
I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, wher...
JACQUES AUDIARD
It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat,
JACQUES AUDIARD
The Beat That My Heart Skipped,
JACQUES AUDIARD
He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles,
JACQUES AUDIARD
I am putting an artist within the reach of wallets in all legality, and I am extending his fame.
JACQUES ATTALI
François Mitterrand was the last king of France. France today is no longer a truly i...
JACQUES ATTALI
It is a modest budget. We wish to start with a small amount.
JACQUES ATTALI
Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie La...
JACQUES BARZUN
The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be ...
JACQUES LACAN
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along ...
JACQUES LACAN
Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my...
JACQUES DERRIDA
For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence...
JACQUES ELLUL
The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russ...
MARTIN JACQUES
I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collecti...
JACQUES DELORS
In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the publi...
JACQUES VERGES
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological s...
JACQUES ELLUL
Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in ...
JACQUES LACAN
The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is al...
MARTIN JACQUES
The election of Shinzo Abe as the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party and now prim...
MARTIN JACQUES
The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agend...
MARTIN JACQUES
The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it mu...
MARTIN JACQUES
Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can f...
BRIAN JACQUES
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of natur...
JACQUES COUSTEAU
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c...
JACQUES BARZUN
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what...
JACQUES COUSTEAU
A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too lo...
JEPH JACQUES
'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scor...
JEPH JACQUES
If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.
JEPH JACQUES
Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the b...
JEPH JACQUES
You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.
JEPH JACQUES
The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop...
JEPH JACQUES
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentra...
JEPH JACQUES
Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.
JEPH JACQUES
There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster ...
JEPH JACQUES
To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.
JACQUES BOSSUET
The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because ...
JACQUES BOSSUET
But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, m...
JACQUES DERRIDA
That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're ...
JEPH JACQUES
Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.
JEPH JACQUES
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE